Hello,
I'm running Windows SBS 2011 Std x64.
I have a full backup scheduled to run daily at 9pm. However, they're not running and there are no logs within WSB.
If i go to event logs I can see that the backup starts, along with VSS and then theres nothing after that.
Manual backups will run fine.
thanks
Yet another 0x80070020 error.
When trying to backup my Windows 7 host, I get the following error:
The backup failed. The process cannot access the file becaue it is being used by another process. 0x80070020
I have manually selected the files to back up, and removing Additional Locations -> AppData folder from the files being backed up allows it to finish.
I suspect that there's a file in that set that's preventing backups from working, either because it's in use or the permissions are wrong. Is there any way to find out which file from the .etl file? tracerpt.exe doesn't give the information and there's no information in the event log or application log about which file is causing the trouble.
Hi
I saw a strange thing last week. I have a batch file that runs at 6am every morning on a 2008 standard 32bit server. It has been running for years without any issues. It invokes Windows Backup and creates a backup of the System State on the local D: drive.
Last Friday the backup failed. When I opened a command prompt and ran the .cmd file manually, the following was displayed:
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D:\SystemStateBackup>ss-backup
D:\SystemStateBackup>wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:D: -quiet
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.
Starting System State Backup [22/04/2016 10:04]
Retrieving volume information...
This would backup the system state from volume(s) OS(C,DATAPART1(D to D:.
ERROR - The location for backup is a critical volume.
D:\SystemStateBackup>
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I've never seen this before. I have read Microsoft's article [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/944530] about this, but Shadow Copy is disabled (it has never been enabled), and there is plenty of space for the System State backup (more than the 2x required as defined in the article).
I have applied the registry changes and the System State backup is now working again.
However, I would like to know how a volume can suddenly become a 'critical' volume. The OS is on the C drive and the local D drive has always been used for storage. Has anyone has seen this before or know what can suddenly cause this change?
The only change to the machine was that I installed printer monitoring software the day before this occurred. I've run SFC and it reported that everything is fine. I have now uninstalled the printer monitoring software
As I understand it, a 'critical' volume is a volume that contains boot information or which has the OS installed. Can the OS change a storage volume so that it holds this type information without any manual intervention?
Thanks.
We are using DPM 2012 to protect several servers. Periodically (one to two times per week), VSS writers will get in a failed state. Rebooting the server always clears up the issues but it seems to me that there should be a way to restart services or processes to re-initialize the writers. For example, when the SQL Server writer is in a failed state, you simply restart the SQL Server VSS Writer service and the issue is fixed most times. Rebooting production servers two to three times per week just to clear up VSS issues doesn't make sense. The ones I can't figure out how to fix without a reboot are these:
All the other writers are pretty easy to figure out, although I'm not sure why "System Writer" is really the Cryptographic service.
Anyone provide some clarification on what service to restart to clear up these VSS writers?
Rob
In the windows server backup console, when an incremental occur, we can see it on screen. Can we read that information from a log or even better with powershell?
Thank, I am been looking at this a all day long with no luck.
David
I am new to this and trying to run a simple "Hello world" program. Everything is fine when I try it directly in python, but when I go to my text editor (Geany) and try to execute I get this error message. I'm sure this is a simple question, but I cant figure out why I'm getting this error. Any help would be appreciated!!!
Thanks
Hi,
Let's assume I have a single DC environment (Windows Server 2012 R2). Assuming this, I have the following questions about restoration with Windows Server Backup:
Thank you,
Flop'
Computer monitoring error Windows Server 2012 Essentials RTM. The error message is the subject. The computer is shown as backed up in the status display of the dashboard and a backup exists.
When I go to the Troubleshooter I am told that no content exists for that error.
Can somebody please shed some light on this issue? It does it every day and it is always the same computer.
Thank you.
Hi all
Quick questions but i cannot find the answer anywhere. I have had windows server backup running on server 2008 r2 on a schedule. for some reason last week it started to fail. No big issue, as i just deleted the schedule and re-created. During the recreation process where i set a new schedule it asks do i want to keep the previous backups on the external usb disk that i was using which i do.
I've now come to the issue where i need to restore files from one of the previous backups but cannot. The issue is the label for the disk has a date stamp in the label name, eg SERVER 2016_01_01 DISK_01 and the new schedule has renamed this location. so when trying to restore in the wizard, it can see the backups are there but when i choose to restore it thinks the disk is offline and not connected because the destination label is different despite the previous backups being on there.
How can i restore these older versions just because the label is different? Any ideas?
Any help appreciated
Thanks
Phill
I installed a set of whatever Windows Updates were waiting to be installed on a Server 2012 R2 Hypervisor host running 5 virtual machines, and installed all available updates on the virtual machines on April 15. This server backups up with full backup job at 7pm once a day - data size is about 1.43 tb all included. Backup media are two 6tb Seagate USB 3 drives connected on a USB 3 port, switched out daily. Prior to the install of the updates on April 15, the backups would typically complete by 2am the following morning. After installing the set of updates, the backups now run until at least 11 am the following morning, sometimes finishing after noon. I install Important, Recommended, and Optional updates. Prior to the April 15 update session, the last round of updates were installed 2/19. Of the 50 updates, 42 installed successfully. I do not see any of the 8 'Failed' updates on the available list of updates currently listed (all say Optional). I assume the 'Failed' status of the 8 that did not install indicate they were not needed when it got to the point of the installation. Server is set to 'Download and let me choose whether to install', so they will be already downloaded when I get the time to install them. Likely some were downloaded sometime early since 2/19, then superceded by newer updates and were not required.
Regardless, one or more of the 42 installed updates has pushed this server from less than 7 hours to over 16 hours regularly to complete the full server backup.
Anybody? Bueller? Bueller?
hye,
i have encounter a backup issue for Windows Server 2012 R2
when i backup a hyper-v using Unitrends.
as i check the 'vssadmin list writers'
i can see one error
Writer name: 'Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer'
Writer Id: {66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de}
Writer Instance Id: {4758c3a4-e8e4-4814-81d8-9d4cbf93cb26}
State: [8] Failed
Last error: Non-retryable error
after i restart the VMMS service, the state will change to stable and for last error,
it will state no error. But this error will re-appear again after I execute another hyper-v backup again.
this is the warning log for VSS
Creating a restore point fails. The following application error is logged:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error CreateFileW(\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1\,0x80000000,0x00000003,...). hr = 0x80070001, Incorrect function.
.
Operation:
Processing PreFinalCommitSnapshots
Context:
Execution Context: System Provider
Before creating the restore point the vss writers are all in a stable state:
vssadmin list writers
There are no corrupt shadow copies:
vssadmin list shadows
vssadmin delete shadows /all
No items found that satisfy the query.
I also removed all hidden storage shadow copies in the device manager.
OS: Windows 10 RTM
Hello:
We are trying to send a scanned doc as a pdf from our richo copier/printer/scanner. None of them are going thru all of a sudden. The error message Im getting from the log file from the copier is 'sshd stop:no hostkeys available ERR:' Any idea on this one?
Hi All,
On our system crashd the RAID, and we must to reinstall 3 Win Srv 2012R2 (DC; File/printer; SQL servers)
The Windows Server Backup works fine before crash.
After reinstall and install all patches the Windows Server Backup work only in DC server.
On File server I changed Shadow Copy size on drive C. But not solved.
I deleted dedicated partition, and recreated it with reset Windows Server Backup.
So Windows Server Backup solved on File Server.
Bud that's way not solved Windows Backup on SQL server.
The Errors:
Applications/Microsoft/Windows/Backup
on wbadmin GUI:
C Drive: The mounted backup volume is inaccessible.
Event Log:
Date 2016.04.18. 20:02:45
Log Windows NT (Application)
Source Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Category (0)
Event 517
User NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer HU-GRA-SQL1.hu.lasselsberger.com
Message
The description for Event ID '517' in Source 'Microsoft-Windows-Backup' cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display the message, or you may not have permission to access them. The following information is part of the event:'2016-04-18T18:00:06.963124500Z', '0x807800c5', '%%2155348165'
Pleasehelp me to solve it!
Gyula Kulifai
When I run the native Windows Server Backup through the Server Manager Console (scheduled or manually), or through wbadmin, the service completes the backup of: -- Recovery -- (2.94 MB of 2.94 MB). However, the backup service hangs up at this point. Both -- OS C: -- and -- Bare Metal Recovery -- list 0KB of 0KB in the Data Transfer column. There is no further progress from this point; the data partition never backs up.
I previously had repeating Events: 137, 57, and 134. It was during this period that Windows Server Backup began malfunctioning. I solved Event 137 by deleting the .blf and .regtrans-ms files in the ...\Machine folder and executing - fsutil resource
setautorest true c:\
After rebooting, I no longer have any of the above errors; however, backup still will not complete. The symptoms are described above.
I have reviewed the Windows Application logs in Event Viewer, and there are no warnings or cautions, except Event 10, since my last reboot.
I have no more information with which to continue troubleshooting this issue. I would very much appreciate assistance.